Re: Quasiquotation marks

From: Gerrit Ansmann <gansmann_at_uni-bonn.de>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:35:13 +0200

On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:51:44 +0200, Frédéric Grosshans <frederic.grosshans_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> This week’s shady character introduces quasiquotation marks, used in fanzines since at least 1944 for “in substance†quaotation. This mark is the superposition of " (or ') with -.
>
> http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/06/miscellany-49-quasiquote/
>
> This looks like a good candidate for unicode encoding, with many discussions in the linked blog posts and comment being about recreating it through rich text (word processor/CSS/TeX...).

This reminds me of the special quotation marks shown and discussed here (with no satisfying conclusion in my opinion):
http://german.stackexchange.com/q/10055/2594

Gerrit Ansmann

_______________________________________________
Unicode mailing list
Unicode_at_unicode.org
http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
Received on Tue Jun 10 2014 - 07:36:13 CDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Tue Jun 10 2014 - 07:36:13 CDT